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To cover all contingencies within a specified range.

Span

A unit of length equivalent to nine inches.

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Regarding the relationship between the performance on the Hayling test and the other neuropsychological tests in people with AD, significant negative relationships were found between the RTs in the automatic condition and the semantic and phonemic fluency tests (p < .05), between the RTs in the inhibition condition and the semantic fluency (p < .05), digit span (p < .01), digit ordering (p < .01), Corsi direct (p < .01) and Corsi inverse tests (p < .01), and between the error scores on the inhibition section and the semantic fluency (p < .05) and alpha span (p < .05).

Semantic inhibition and dementia severity in Alzheimer's disease

The VFT and the Digit Span Memory Test were the second and third most used tests, respectively.

Cognitive assessment instruments used in elderly Brazilians in the last five years

After the selection of subtests a try out phase was conducted to shortlist items from each complex subtest (Digit Span, Paired Associate Learning Test, Block Design, Non-Verbal Learning Test) on the basis of difficulty level.

Development and Validation of Neuro-Cognitive Assessment Battery for Stroke Patients (NCABS) in Pakistan

There were significant differences between two groups in Trail Marking Test, the forward Digit Span Test, the backward Digit Span Test, the total score of Digit Span Test, Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test's number of responses, number of sorting, number of correct responses and the rate of correct responses, Verbal Fluency Test, Semantic Similarity Test and the reaction time of Stroop Color-Word Test.

An Association Study on the Cognitive Function and the Cerebral Grey Matter Volume of Patients with First-Episode Schizophrenia

Forward digit span scores increased significantly from 6.4 [+ or -] 1.8 to 7.2 [+ or -] 1.8 points (p < 0.001) after the CEFP session, and averaged a median 119.2% (95% CI, 7.8-26.4) of baseline (left panel, Figure 1A).

Effects of a Single-Session Cognitive Enhancement Fitness Program on Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged Women

Maximum score is 16 and 14 in the forward and backward digit span tests, respectively.

The effect of cognitive functions on the ability to learn how to use a Diskus device in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

On the contrary, the MSNQ-I was correlated significantly with performance on the Verbal Fluency, the Greek Verbal Learning, and the Digit Span tests.

Estimating Everyday Neuropsychological Functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: Reliability and Validity of the Greek Multiple Sclerosis Neuropsychological Questionnaire

A-B-C-A design; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; CDR: Clinical Dementia Rating; GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale; TMT: Trail Making Test; DST: digit span test.

The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Cognitive Functions in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study

Koppitz (24) developed Visual Aural Digit Span Test but it has the limitation and reduction of errors, to eliminate these GISD-B form was developed.

Investigation of distinctive characteristics of children with specific learning disorder and borderline intellectual functioning

The following tests were carried out on the subjects (study and control) in a relaxed state and privacy was given utmost importance: Rye's auditory verbal learning test (AVLT), verbal fluency test (VFT) and working digit span test (WDST) to assess short-term memory, visual reproduction test (VRT), and validation span test (VST) were used to assess working memory.